The Booted Eagle - raptors continue to return for the summer

Summer migrants are starting to return from African wintering grounds…and the new season took a step closer yesterday with my first Booted Eagle (Aguila pennata) of the year! I say “mine” – Kiersten is sure she spotted one a couple of days earlier! – but either way it’s terrific to have these seasonal visitors back on [...]

 
Booted Eagles patrol the hillsides once more...summer in the Alpujarras

We’re in the first days of June…and many of our wonderful seasonal visitors have already returned for the summer. As ever Kiersten has been busy with her camera, as we try to keep you up to date with all the new arrivals…and that includes our magnificent birds of prey. Over the last few weeks, Booted [...]

 
Honey Buzzards over Lanjaron…another first for the year! 3rd May 2010

It’s the first Monday of the new month, and Kiersten has snapped yet another first for the year! Our very first Honey Buzzards, floating over the hillside just outside the village of Lanjaron, back from Africa and on passage to breeding grounds further north. Kiersten counted at least thirty, and I was lucky enough to [...]